Shepherd is a feature film shot by Shanghai Film Studio, directed by Xie Jin and starring Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan. It was released on 1982. The film is adapted from Zhang Xianliang's novel Soul and Body.
It tells the story that Xu came to work in the northwest pasture, was taken care of by local herders, and married a rural girl. After the Cultural Revolution, he gave up the opportunity to live in the United States and decided to stay and build the motherland.
Movie highlights:
The film is quite ingenious, concise, concise and distinctive in artistic structure. The director's specific arrangement of the story has achieved the combination of rigidity and softness, and the shades are consistent. The narrative of events in The Shepherd follows the life course of the characters and often expresses their profound and rich feelings in twists and turns.
Xu's image in the film is true. Fortunately, the adaptation of the film revolves around Xu's drama entanglement with people around him, and through a series of visible and comparative artistic techniques, his deep affection for the motherland and the countryside is written concretely and vividly.